Featured Analogy Examples:
Sunday, May 20 , 2012
Internet Commerce |
| A: Facebook is like |
| B: Starbucks |
| What: "Facebook is like a Starbucks where everyone hangs out for hours but almost never buys anything." |
| Writer: Chris Dixon |
| LCC: H |
| Where: |
| http://www.businessinsider.com/stickiness-is-bad-for-business-2010-3 |
| Date: Apr 11 2010 8:08 AM |
| #: 375Critique analogy |
Facebook As Being Stuck Next To A Freak |
| A: Facebook is like |
| B: being stuck next to a freak on a plane. |
| What: "If Facebook is the dude with questionable hygiene who sits next to you on the plane and is voted most likely to end up in the newspaper in a story ending "…and then turned the gun on himself". |
| Writer: James Rhodes |
| LCC: |
| Where: |
| http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/jamesrhodes/100054201/using-facebook-is-like-being-stuck-next-to-a-freak-on-a-plane-so-im-leaving/ |
| Date: Feb 6 2012 5:46 PM |
| #: 1651Critique analogy |
Some Resaons Facebook Is Like Bob Dylan |
| A: Facebook is like |
| B: Bob Dylan |
| What: Reason # 4. There are 6 of them. "Facebook is a game-changer. Like him or not, Bob Dylan's music has influenced thousands of musicians — The Beatles most notably (their music took a more insightful, creative turn after meeting Dylan in 1964). His music changed not just folk music, but popular music." |
| Writer: Christine Geraci |
| LCC: |
| Where: |
| http://www.talentzoo.com/digital-pivot/blog_news.php?articleID=12532 |
| Date: Feb 6 2012 5:49 PM |
| #: 1652Critique analogy |
| A: Facebook is like |
| B: a tattoo |
| What: “Facebook is like a tattoo. Make it trashy and it will keep you from getting jobs in the future. Keep it classy and it will be something you have your whole life.” |
| Writer: Emily Wolfram: |
| LCC: |
| Where: |
| http://bradberens.com/2011/12/26/social-media-quote-of-the-year-facebook-is-like-a-tattoo/ |
| Date: Feb 6 2012 5:52 PM |
| #: 1653Critique analogy |
Ikea |
| A: Facebook is like |
| B: Ikea |
| What: "But a defining idea behind Wikipedia, Facebook, and blogging platforms such as WordPress is that if you give people the right tools, they'll use them to create wonderful things in collaboration with each other or with the organization that provides the catalyst." I hope Facebook has better quality furniture than IKEA. |
| Writer: Tim Harford |
| LCC: |
| Where: |
| http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_undercover_economist/2008/01/how_facebook_is_like_ikea.html |
| Date: Feb 6 2012 6:01 PM |
| #: 1656Critique analogy |
The Rotary Club |
| A: Facebook is like |
| B: Your Rotary Club |
| What: "You want to connect with other people in your community. This isn’t about advertising, it’s about connection. There are people who will love your business and what you do because of common interests and values. Rotary helps you locate those people in your community." The article has a list of reasons of why these 2 groups are similar. A very pointed and logical article. |
| Writer: Joanne Steele |
| LCC: |
| Where: |
| http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/2011/05/how-facebook-is-like-rotary-club/ |
| Date: Feb 6 2012 6:13 PM |
| #: 1660Critique analogy |
Hotel Facebook |
| A: Facebook is like |
| B: as an Eagles Song |
| What: "It was then that I made the interesting discovery that you can't actually leave Facebook once you have joined. Like the Hotel California, it is a place that you check out of but you can never leave." |
| Writer: Andrew Brown |
| LCC: |
| Where: |
| http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/dec/20/facebook.privacy |
| Date: Feb 6 2012 6:24 PM |
| #: 1663Critique analogy |
About
"Formulating biotech products as making beef jerky". Yeah, that's it. Over the holidays, my relatives often ask about work and what I do. Trying to explain processing and formulating biologics can be difficult for those who don't have a background in this area or in any type of science. A metaphor or analogy helps explain novel subject matter by helping to extend concepts.
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Writers:
Extract and link to a non literal portion of your work. What does the White Whale in Moby Dick signify?
Teachers:
The utility of analogy is well documented in helping students aquire a new idea. Search the site for a particular topic. If you can't find what you seek, send a request for a free custom search.
Artists:
Publish an allegorical discussion of your work. Could some art be considered Viral? Gerry Stecca: Viral Art Feel free to link back to your site. Roy Lichtenstein's Bull Series demonstrates the progression of representational to non representational art.
Potential Topics:
Finance:
Try to make sense of murky financial news. Are Credit Default Swaps explained as burning down a house you don't own?
Politics:
Move through the layers of complex situations in which their essence is rarely obvious. Could Afghanistan be considered a form of international welfare?
Science:
Help get to the heart of highly esoteric subject matter that pops into the news daily. How come Cancer Cells are very compicated and difficult to treat?
Trekkies:
The compact disc was foreshadowed in the Star Trek episode "All Our Yesterdays"
Foodies
Little Debbie Cream Pies with peanut butter are something to muse about
Matty Flynn
January 2012
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